Tuesday, Feb 21, 2012

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. will betray a latest gain on Thursday, Feb 23, 2012. World Wrestling Entertainment is intent in a development, prolongation and selling of radio and pay-per-view eventuality programming and live events, and a chartering and sale of consumer products featuring a World Wrestling Entertainment brands.

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. Earnings Preview Cheat Sheet

Wall St. Earnings Expectations: The normal researcher guess is for distinction of 12 cents per share, a arise of 9.1% from a company’s tangible gain for a year-ago quarter. During a past 3 months, a normal guess has changed down from 15 cents. Between one and 3 months ago, a normal guess changed down. It has been unvaried during 12 cents during a final month. Analysts are raised distinction to arise by 19.7% contra final year to 57 cents.

Past Earnings Performance: The association surfaced estimates final entertain after blank forecasts a entertain prior. In a third quarter, it reported net income of 19 cents per share opposite a meant guess of distinction of 15 cents per share. In a second quarter, it missed forecasts by 4 cents.

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Wall St. Revenue Expectations: Analysts envision a diminution of 2.1% in income from a year-earlier entertain to $120 million.

Analyst Ratings: Analysts seem comparatively indifferent about World Wrestling Entertainment with 5 of 6 analysts surveyed progressing a reason rating.

A Look Back: In a third quarter, distinction fell 26.1% to $10.6 million (14 cents a share) from $14.3 million (19 cents a share) a year earlier, though exceeded researcher expectations. Revenue fell 1% to $108.5 million from $109.6 million.

Key Stats:

The diminution in distinction in a third entertain came after net income rose in a prior quarter. In a second quarter, net income rose some-more than twofold.

Revenue fell in a third entertain after saying a arise a entertain before. In a second quarter, income rose 33.4%.

Stock Price Performance: Between Nov 21, 2011 and Feb 17, 2012, a batch cost rose 49 cents (5.3%), from $9.20 to $9.69. The batch cost saw one of a best stretches over a final year between Mar 18, 2011 and Mar 28, 2011, when shares rose for 7 true days, augmenting 6.1% (+70 cents) over that span. It saw one of a misfortune durations between Nov 15, 2011 and Nov 25, 2011 when shares fell for 8 true days, dropping 8.5% (-84 cents) over that span.

(Company fundamentals by Xignite Financials. Earnings estimates supposing by Zacks)

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

Gaylord Entertainment Company (NYSE: GET – News) announced currently that it will
benefaction to investors attending a Raymond James 33^rd Annual
Institutional Investors Conference being hold during a JW Marriott Grande
Lakes in Orlando, Florida on Monday, Mar 5 during 4:00 p.m. ET. Mark
Fioravanti, executive clamp boss and arch financial officer for
Gaylord Entertainment, will promulgate a Company’s new financial
performance, expansion objectives and business strategy. Patrick Chaffin,
clamp boss of vital formulation and financier relations, will also
attend a conference.

The display will be webcast and can be accessed on Gaylord’s
website during http://ir.gaylordentertainment.com.
To listen to and perspective a webcast, greatfully revisit a financier relations
website during slightest 15 mins before to a commencement of a scheduled
display to register, download and implement required multimedia
streaming software. For those who can't listen to a live broadcast, a
replay will be accessible after a display and will run for 30 days.

About Gaylord Entertainment:

Gaylord Entertainment (NYSE: GET – News), a heading liberality and
party association formed in Nashville, Tenn., owns and operates
Gaylord Hotels (www.gaylordhotels.com),
a network of upscale, meetings-focused resorts and a Grand Ole Opry (www.opry.com),
a weekly showcase of nation music’s excellent performers for 86
uninterrupted years. The company’s party brands and properties
embody a Radisson Hotel Opryland, Ryman Auditorium, General Jackson
Showboat, Gaylord Springs Golf Links, Wildhorse Saloon, and WSM-AM. For
some-more information about a company, revisit www.GaylordEntertainment.com.

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Universal Entertainment Corp.’s Chairman Okada

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Kazuo Okada, authority of Universal Entertainment Corp.

Kazuo Okada, authority of Universal Entertainment Corp. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg

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Wynn Resorts Ltd. Chairman and CEO Steve Wynn

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Steve Wynn, authority and arch executive officer of Wynn Resorts Ltd.

Steve Wynn, authority and arch executive officer of Wynn Resorts Ltd. Photographer: Jerome Favre/Bloomberg

Pachinko billionaire Kazuo Okada’s
Universal Entertainment Corp. (6425) fell by a record in Tokyo trading
after Wynn Resorts Ltd. (WYNN) redeemed Universal’s 20 percent interest at
a 31 percent bonus and indicted Okada of crude payments.

Universal (6245) plunged by a daily limit 21 percent, the
biggest dump given a inventory in Sep 1998, to 1,516 yen
at a tighten of trade in Tokyo, after being untraded many of
the day as sell orders outnumbered buyers. The pachinko machine
maker vowed authorised movement to strengthen a value of a interest and
called Wynn Resorts’ pierce “outrageous” in an e-mailed
statement today.

Wynn Resorts redeemed a 24 million shares hold by Aruze
USA Inc., a pachinko association tranquil by Universal, and issued
a 10-year $1.9 billion promissory note for a stock, according
to a matter from a Las Vegas-based casino operator
yesterday. The Wynn Resorts interest would be value about $2.77
billion during a Feb. 17 shutting cost of $112.69 in New York,
about 31 percent some-more than Wynn paid in a redemption.

“The preference by a Wynn board, that followed a rushed
investigation that lacks comprehensive findings, to redeem Universal
Entertainment’s scarcely 20 percent land in Wynn Resorts based
on a devise in a Philippines is outrageous,” Universal
said in a statement. “We have not even been supposing with the
opportunity to review” a news by Wynn’s investigation
committee, a association said.

Hong Kong-listed section Wynn Macau Ltd. climbed as most as
5.9 percent to HK$21.50, a biggest intraday boost in almost
a month, before trade during HK$20.80 as of 2:51 p.m. internal time.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino has asked Cristino
Naguiat, authority of Philippines Amusement and Gaming Corp., for
information about Okada, Edwin Lacierda, a president’s
spokesman pronounced during a press lecture today. Naguiat will emanate a
statement today, Lacierda said.

Wynn Resorts Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Stephen Wynn and Okada, who helped stake a association starting 12
years ago, have clashed over a concession a U.S. user made
to a University of Macau and Universal’s devise to build a
casino review in a Philippines.

Okada was nude of his vice-chairman purpose final year
after alleging improprieties in a university concession that’s
the theme of a lawsuit and a U.S. regulatory inquiry.

Okada disregarded U.S. anti-corruption laws and done cash
payments and gifts of about $110,000 to gambling regulators in
the Philippines, Wynn Resorts pronounced in a statement, citing an
investigation it conducted with former Nevada Governor Robert Miller and Louis Freeh, a ex-director of a Federal Bureau of
Investigation.

Pachinko, a form of container machine, generates about 20
trillion yen ($251 billion) in annual income in Japan as a form
of gambling, according to a 2011 white paper from a Japan
Productivity Center, a non-governmental organization.

To hit a reporters on this story:
Dave McCombs in Tokyo at
dmccombs@bloomberg.net;
Shunichi Ozasa in Tokyo at
sozasa@bloomberg.net

To hit a editor obliged for this story:
Stephanie Wong at
swong139@bloomberg.net

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BOCA RATON, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

In a vital enlargement plan, iPic Entertainment President and CEO Hamid
Hashemi suggested sum for 3 new flagship locations rising at
Mizner Park, Boca Raton, Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida
and Pike Rose Rockville, MD, with additional sites in a works for
Boston, New York, and Los Angeles during a Wednesday press conference.
Established in 2007 and headquartered in South Florida, iPic Theaters
has quickly grown to 8 locations with 59 screens in 6 states over
a final 3 years; priding itself on delivering an “affordable
higher experience” in a cinema marketplace.

iPic Boca Raton, slated to open summer 2012, a 43,000 block foot
upscale amicable destination, will continue Hashemi’s new prophesy for the
destiny of cinema entertainment, encompassing an 8 screen, 480 seat
oppulance museum and “Tanzy,” a 7,000 block feet restaurant-bar dining
judgment that will offer a clearly opposite culinary knowledge than
what is now found in a museum industry. Moviegoers can
expect a higher movie-going knowledge in a fantastic upscale
environment mixing style, comfort, party and state of a art
technology.

All 3 arriving iPic destinations will offer chic, infrequent dining and
loll to finish a night-out experience.

iPic Hallandale, projected to open in Dec 2012, a 45,000 square
feet upscale amicable destination, will ring an 8 screen, 650
chair oppulance museum along with “Salt,” a 3,500 block feet independent
ultra-lounge judgment and “Tanzy,” an eccentric 8,000 block foot
restaurant-bar dining concept.

iPic Rockville, 46,000 block feet, will also underline a “Salt”
ultra-lounge concept.

iPic Theaters’ lush take on a film museum knowledge is
anything though ordinary, charity moviegoers an over-the-top night out.
All iPic Theaters exaggerate insubordinate comfort with recumbent leather
seats, use call buttons, pillows and blankets, innovative cocktails
prepared by world-renowned mixologists and chef-driven cuisine.

“iPic destinations go over movies,” explains Hashemi, “offering one
stop destinations for dining, movies, and a place to network and meet
friends.”

“iPic Entertainment is vehement to renovate a typical, mundane
movie-going knowledge by providing excitement, anticipation, style,
comfort, decrease and conspicuous technology,” adds Hashemi.

Each iPic plcae facilities 8 auditoriums with insinuate seating that
can be indifferent online or from a iPic App for iPhone or Android for a
one-step transaction process. Their membership module offers guests
bonus pricing, priority presentation of sheet availability, access
to disdainful showings, giveaway upgrades and a ability to acquire points
towards rewards. For some-more information on apropos an iPic member, please
revisit www.ipictheaters.com/become-a-member.aspx.

Bringing cutting-edge record with all digital projection,
state-of-the-art sound, studio-preferred 3D record and a latest
for both a conference and visually impaired, iPic Theaters embodies the
destiny of cinema entertainment. With a organisation faith in flitting value to
a customer, iPic Theaters does not supplement surcharges for any 3D
presentations.

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About iPic Entertainment®

Boca Raton, FL-based iPic-Gold Class Entertainment, LLC is regarded as
an attention personality developer and user of singular entertainment
destinations, handling disdainful venues that embody reward movie
theaters, restaurants and stylized bowling centers. iPic Entertainment
now operates 8 theaters with 59 screens in Arizona,
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STAMFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

WWE Studios (NYSE:WWE – News) and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
(TCFHE) now announced that they have partnered to produce, financial and
marketplace 3 DVD premiere titles commencement with The Marine: Homefront,
a subsequent installment in a successful The Marine franchise.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will hoop worldwide
placement for a 3 cinema on Blu-ray, DVD, VOD and digital
download. WWE will implement a endless tellurian strech of some-more than half
a billion homes by a television, digital/social media and print
resources to marketplace a recover of any film.

“WWE Studios will continue to enhance a film offerings to interest to a
far-reaching operation of film fans in 2012 and 2013,” pronounced WWE Studios President,
Michael Luisi. “We demeanour brazen to building on a attribute with
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment to benefaction cinema that bring
action, journey and amusement to audiences all over a globe.”

“WWE is a extensive classification upheld by a universe category marketing
machine,” pronounced Mike Dunn, President, Twentieth Century Fox Home
Entertainment. “We are unapproachable to continue a partnership with Michael
and his team.”

The understanding cements a prolonged station attribute between WWE Studios and
Twentieth Century Fox that dates behind to a melodramatic releases of The
Marine and 12 Rounds both starring WWE Superstar John Cena®,
as good as a DVD premiere of The Marine 2 and Behind Enemy
Lines: Colombia.

About WWE Studios

WWE Studios continues to strategically variegate a line-up of films,
that embody melodramatic releases and direct-to-home premieres, under
a superintendence of President Michael Luisi. Upcoming films for WWE Studios
includes: No One Lives starring Luke Evans and WWE Superstar
Brodus Clay that was co-produced with Pathé Films; Barricade
starring Eric McCormack; and cult strike The Day starring Dominic
Monaghan, Shawn Ashmore, and Ashley Bell, that was purchased during the
Toronto Film Festival this past year. Next adult for WWE Studios is Bending
a Rules starring Jamie Kennedy and WWE Superstar Edge®. The buddy
movement comedy will strike theaters on Mar 9, 2012.

About WWE

WWE,
a publicly traded association (NYSE: WWE – News), is an integrated media
classification and famous personality in tellurian entertainment. The company
consists of a portfolio of businesses that emanate and broach original
calm 52 weeks a year to a tellurian audience. WWE is committed to family
accessible party on a radio programming, pay-per-view,
digital media and edition platforms. WWE programming is promote in
some-more than 145 countries and 30 languages and reaches some-more than 500
million homes worldwide. The association is headquartered in Stamford,
Conn., with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Mumbai, Shanghai,
Singapore, Istanbul and Tokyo.

Additional information on WWE (NYSE: WWE – News) can be found during wwe.com and
corporate.wwe.com. For information on a tellurian activities, go to http://www.wwe.com/worldwide/.

Trademarks: All WWE programming, talent
names, images, likenesses, slogans, wrestling moves, trademarks, logos
and copyrights are a disdainful skill of WWE and a subsidiaries.
All other trademarks, logos and copyrights are a skill of their
particular owners.

Forward-Looking Statements: This news
recover contains forward-looking statements pursuant to a protected harbor
supplies of a Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, that are
theme to several risks and uncertainties. These risks and
uncertainties include, but limitation, risks relating to maintaining
and renewing pivotal agreements, including radio distribution
agreements; a need for ceaselessly building artistic and
interesting programming; a continued significance of pivotal performers and
a services of Vincent McMahon; a conditions of a markets in which
we contest and acceptance of a Company’s brands, media and merchandise
within those markets; a bearing to bad debt risk; uncertainties
relating to regulatory and lawsuit matters; risks ensuing from the
rarely rival inlet of a markets; uncertainties compared with
ubiquitous markets; a significance of safeguarding a intellectual
skill and complying with a egghead skill rights of others;
risks compared with producing and travelling to and from a large
live events, both domestically and internationally; a risk of
accidents or injuries during a physically perfectionist events; risks
relating to a film business and any new business beginning that we
might undertake; risks relating to a vast series of shares of common
batch tranquil by members of a McMahon family and a probability of
a sale of their batch by a McMahons or a notice of the
probability of such sales; a comparatively tiny open boyant of our
stock; and other risks and factors set onward from time to time in
Company filings with a Securities and Exchange Commission. Actual
formula could differ materially from those now approaching or
anticipated. In addition, a division is contingent on a series of
factors, including, among other things, a liquidity and chronological and
projected money flow, vital devise (including choice uses of
capital), a financial formula and condition, contractual and legal
restrictions on a remuneration of dividends, ubiquitous mercantile and
rival conditions and such other factors as a Board of Directors
might cruise relevant.

Friday, Feb 17, 2012

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) currently announced that it is now usurpation applications and submissions for a 2012 Gamers in Real Life (G.I.R.L.) Game Design Competition. Celebrating a fifth anniversary, a G.I.R.L. Scholarship prides itself as being an active matter for moving women’s impasse in a video diversion industry, as good as for providing an open gateway for those posterior careers in a margin of artistic and practical arts.

Since a pregnancy in 2008, a G.I.R.L. module has postulated scholarships to 4 winners by a annual “Game Design Competition,” any of whom has done an impact within a gaming and art industries.

SOE will endowment one personality of a 2012 G.I.R.L. Game Design Competition with a grant in a volume of $10,000 to be practical towards fee and other educational losses during a winner’s propagandize of enrollment. Winners will also be given a event to attend in a paid internship of adult to 10 weeks during SOE’s domicile in San Diego for hands-on knowledge operative on one or some-more of a company’s games.

“The idea of G.I.R.L. has always been of opportunity, preparation and recruitment to get some-more women into a gaming industry,” pronounced Laura Naviaux, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing, Sony Online Entertainment. “Over a final few years, we have been zero brief of tender with a hundreds of extraordinary submissions from gifted students nationwide. Now in a fifth year, we can’t wait to see a creativity that comes out of a G.I.R.L. program.” 

Submissions for a 2012 G.I.R.L. Game Design Competition will tighten on Mar 29, 2012. To apply, field contingency register with Scholarship America®, SOE’s grant administrator, and contention their focus for evaluation, as destined here: https://www.scholarshipamerica.org/gamersinreallife/

For some-more information about G.I.R.L., greatfully revisit girl.soe.com. To follow G.I.R.L. on Twitter, go to https://twitter.com/SOE_GIRL or to join G.I.R.L. on Facebook, go to http://tinyurl.com/SOE-GIRL.

About Sony Online Entertainment

Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) is a famous worldwide personality in massively multiplayer online games. Best famous for a blockbuster hits and franchises, including EverQuest®, EverQuest® II, Champions of Norrath®, PlanetSide®, Free Realms®, Clone Wars Adventures™ and DC Universe™ Online, SOE creates, develops and provides constrained online party for a accumulation of platforms. SOE is building on a proven bequest and pioneering a destiny of online worlds by artistic growth and desirous gameplay pattern for audiences of all ages. To learn more, revisit www.soe.com.

SOE, a SOE logo, EverQuest, Champions of Norrath, PlanetSide and Free Realms are purebred trademarks of Sony Online Entertainment LLC. All other trademarks and trade names are properties of their particular owners. All rights reserved.

About Scholarship America®

Scholarship America® is a inhabitant preparation use classification that mobilizes support for students removing into and graduating from college. Scholarship America has distributed some-more than $2.5 billion in grant assistance to some-more than 1.7 million students over a final 50 years. Scholarship America’s programs, that embody Dollars for Scholars®, assistance account both entry-level and multi-year scholarships, as good as puncture financial grants. More information is accessible during www.scholarshipamerica.org.